On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 11:35:34 +0100, kramb64 wrote: > I'm trying to use setattr inside a module. > From outside a module it's easy: > > import spam > name="hello" > value=1 > setattr(spam, name, value) > > But if I want to do this inside the module spam itself, what I've to > pass to setattr as first argument? > > Thanks a lot for your time. > Marco.
As others point out, sys.modules[__name__] I find myself doing this more and more, not less, as I get further into Python; autogenerating many similar functions, pulling constants from an external source, stuff like that, usually very meta and every instinct says its the right thing to do. Maybe we should have a __module__ attribute that is a reference to the current module? sys.modules[__name__] is a little obtuse. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list